Tutorial Cartography for Map Figures in Academic Journals & Books
Completion requirements
This workshop will discuss approaches and guidelines for creating map figures for academic books and journals. I will use QGIS to illustrate one workflow in a graphical GIS. This general workflow can be applied to other graphical GIS programs or even non-map figures.
This workshop was developed by Dr. Michele Tobias from UC Davis (GPL 3.0 license) and updated to QGIS 3.22 with some minor changes by Dr. Hans van der Kwast, published on GISopencourseware. The original workshop can be found here.
2. Steps in Making a Map for a Journal Figure
2.4. Page Set Up
Once you know your art specs, set up your page in the print composer/layout manager. I typically do this immediately after loading my data, or even before. You want to assemble your map at the right size from the start to avoid having to re-do steps.